Wikipedia:Valued picture candidates/Great Blue Heron Eating Common Snapping Turtle

Great Blue Heron Eating Common Snapping Turtle edit

 
Original - Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) eating a Common Snapping Turtle (Chelydra serpentina) hatchling.
Reason
Image illustrates a Great Blue Heron eating its prey. The image has been used on the article for months and provides a great close-up of the turtle in the heron's mouth.
Articles this image appears in
Great Blue Heron
Creator
John Harrison

Promoted File:GreatBlueHeroneatingturtle08.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 00:29, 20 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]